Happy Anniversary to ME

When I woke up this morning, I realized that I have been in Germany for 1 year! I landed New Year's Eve last year with Julie. It's funny to think of all that has happened in a year. I've dated a few guys, been to a few countries, babies have been born, people have moved away, new people have arrived, I've moved to a new house. It's Crazy.

In the last year I have been to:
Germany
-Munich
-Idar Oberstein
-Trier
-Rhine River Biking
Belgium
-St. Vith
-Tongaren
-Brugge
France
-Metz
-Strasbourg
Spain
-Barcelona
Italy
-Rome
England
-London
Switzerland
-Bern
Prague
Netherlands
-Keukenhoff Gardens

This year, I hope to get to Greece, Paris, more of Switzerland, Turkey, and maybe Egypt. All this will be determined by my deployment. I am officially on the list. If the 47th CSH still goes somewhere, I'll be going with them in August. Time is short.

I am also applying (well, attempting) to grad school for June of 2010. I am attempting to do the virtually impossible by applying as an inexperienced nurse. The Chief of Anesthesiology and the Head Nurse of ICU are both sticklers about attending the Critical Care Course first and thinking that I'm redicioulous to even try. So, I have 3 months to change their minds because I need a recommendation from Anesthesia and a competency checklist from ICU. I am burrying myself in my studies and my work for the next few months. I'm increasing my work shifts to an additional 60 hours every two weeks and taking the GRE on the 21st of Jan so that if I need to take it again I can in February. As I am currently single, this'll be pretty easy.

Apparently, news to me, I promote to 1LT tomorrow. I have no orders of course, the company was totally suprised, but I got an e-mail from the higher powers that said "Congratualations, Jan 1!!" I'll take it, but I still need orders. Hopefully today, because certainly not tomorrow.

I'm still waiting on Christmas packages. I gues the mailroom is overwhelemed and they're playing catch up over the next few days. We'll see what happens!

Well, I'm off to study ventilators, hemodynamics, narcotics, and GRE vocabulary before work tonight.

Happy New Year's!!!

Happy Anniversary to Ken and Mary!! And, Hapy Belated Anniversary to Grandma and Grandpa!